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Lee Jong Seok Travels Summer Casual in New Star1 Accessories Pictorial

I’m starting to get impatient waiting for news on Lee Jong Seok‘s next acting project. My gut tells me it’ll be a movie since his last work was the drama Pinocchio. I still don’t know why that drama wasn’t a buzzier hit, it really had everything working for me from OTP chemistry down to a impactful fully developed story. It was quite popular when it aired late last year, enough to continue the great momentum Lee Jong Seok has going for his acting career.

Summer is here and my boy helps ushers in the casual mood with a new Star1 pictorial showcasing the accessories line for Mandarina Duck. If I didn’t find him such a charismatic and charming actor onscreen, I might be tempted to have him stick with his day job as a model. He is really expressive in print, able to convey emotion in suspended animation, with an additional benefit of being not the most striking of models. His bestie Kim Woo Bin is so unusual looking, still handsome but harder to blend in, whereas Lee Jong Seok transforms effortlessly into any persona.

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  • Healer stole the thunder from Pinocchio and LJS. I remember someone said that people will talk about Pinocchio more than Healer after 6 months. Look now, it's opposite.

      • @Alison i was speaking in the context of koala's "why Pinocchio wasn’t a buzzier hit". I liked Pinocchio too and didn't say anything bad about it.

    • I agree Healer stole the thunder. The chemistry of JCW & PMY is amazing.

      I actually would like to see LJS in another drama rather than movie.

      • I agree but only on the english speaking part.. they lost 80% of the shippers to healer. Pinocchio bearly survived domisitcally and was average at best. but however did good in China but it dosen't mean that healer could do it better because healer came after the new SAFTA law came in and stopped the dramas flooding into china.. so we will never know who would have come on top there. but pinocchio only did good china.

        I never saw pinocchio as a potential drama, just average good show.

      • @dramafan - lol, you tried. Too bad the facts don't back it up.

        and btw, Healer began airing in Korea on 8 December, 2014 - the SARFT rule about submitting all episodes of a drama for review before sale of streaming rights applied only to dramas that began airing AFTER 1 Jan, 2015. So it didn't come "after the new SAFTA law" at all, it stood every bit as much of an equal chance in China as Pinocchio (premiere date 15 November, 2014)

    • The real fact is Kill me Heal me stole the thunder from both , Pinocchio concentrating on the media and the problems inside it unlike healer which concentrating on the romance relation between both leads .
      For me the real winner is kill me heal me bcz it was refreshment in korean dramas .

      • that is true. Kill Me Heal Me pretty much crushes every other drama when it comes to buzz, even six months into 2015. Viewers will probably revolt if MBC denies Ji Sung the Daesang at their end of year awards, that's how strong the impact was.

    • But who's still talking about Healer though? If you said KMHM then I would agree, but Healer?

    • healer was not a buzz hit either tho...
      and about stealing thunder from LJS?? Imao... he is really busy with FM in several cities/countries, pictorials, more CFs etc...
      as for pinocchiom it was a good drama but not that extraordinary.. but at least it's more recognized in korea than healer...

    • Lmaooo,,healer didn't steal anything from pinocchio and ljs,,yes, healer has many fans in soompi and dramabeans but it doesn't mean it is more successful than pinocchio internationally,lolllll,if you say kill me heal me that stole thunder from pinocchio, I agree then , but of course not ljs,,,his fanbase is becoming bigger and bigger now after pinocchio,,there's no single problem for him, his popularity iss still the same and increasing.

    • Sorry but if any drama is still getting talked about 6 months later both among Korean netizens and international drama fans, it's Kill Me Heal Me. Only a handful of obsessed Healer fans on db/soompi talk about it now, that's hardly making it more successful than Pinocchio.

  • Jongsuk's contract with his agency expires next January so they're currently talking it over and until things are settled Jongsuk's going to stay lowkey. He's expected back for a new project in the fall though, at least that's what his agency says.

    • Also: "His bestie Kim Woo Bin is so unusual looking, still handsome but harder to blend in, whereas Lee Jong Seok transforms effortlessly into any persona."

      I see you're trying to stir shit, but don't you know that to be a efficient troll you're not supposed to make it obvious? C-

      • We don't know what is happening outside his work. Don't judge his company. I trust him as a good actor.

  • 'My boy'!!!! I wonder where that koala is who said LJS looks like a joker...

    All of us already knew how good and charismatic he is before jumping on to conclusions and opinions about him without even watching any of his work.

  • Jongsuk said that he wanted to have a break after almost non stop acting at 2014 with DS and Pinocchio. so it's not because there's no buzz about him or whatsoever

  • Despite new SAFTA law, Healer is available for streaming at youko so let us study the number as of today. D
    Pinocchio release date: 2014-11-12, Total View: 1,251,838,046 Today new play:1,488,375
    Healer release date: 2014-12-08, Total View: 48,145 Today new play:NIL (lol)

    No comparison here. Only deluded fangirls think healer is more popular in china.

    • Yep. Half a year after it's over, China's still streaming Pinocchio into the millions, Pinocchio's 1.2billion is catching up to Heir's 1.3billion kdrama record on that site.

    • But thats only China tho.. healer was sold to china after it ended it's airing time..

      Healer did worse domistically then pinocchio who survived on the ratings. but healer didn't survive sadly it basically went down the toilet.. but on the english speaking part healer did far better then Pinocchio and gain more lasting fans.

      Pinocchio average show that did good in China and healer is failed show that did good in the west.

      • Pinocchio gained so much from china,,popularity and money while healer didnt get anything from "the english speaking part" you're talking about. Healer just gets delusional fanbase.

      • @drama fan i live in china and healer was available on youku as it aired, kill me heal me was the first drama to be hit by china's laws. Healer had a fair chance in china it just wasnt popular there

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